Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Long live the 3 day weekend....

Posting by John today....
Apparently, when you are Queen, you can have your birthday on the first Monday of June, regardless of what day you were actually born. I never held the British Monarchy with too high of a regard, but if it gives me an occasional three day weekend holiday, I guess I'm OK with it.

I've decided that there are two things that you can sell in NZ and make lots of money.
  1. Coffee. Lots of caffeine addicts. Rarely been to a cafe that did not have a line/queue. One in two business meetings are usually held in a local cafe.
  2. Heaters. You would think that insulation would sell pretty well to, but it is much easier to just turn on a space heater than install insulation. I hold the NZ home building industry in lower regard than Prince whathisname. They probably do better work today than in the past, but thier past work was pretty pathetic.
Activities last weekend: Farmers market sampling lots of strange fruit, tramping to another waterfall, having a couple Minnesotans over for dinner, and began gutting and redecorating the master bedroom and bathroom.

2 comments:

George said...

Are you going to insulate the bedroom?

John and Lisa said...

That would involve tearing out walls and we are not that ambitious.